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Quite m Burn.

DOVER, N. H., April l5.--The great
est fire Dover has ever experienced,
occurred this afternoon in the Cochlico
print works. 1t will involve loss of
nearly 100000 and will throw over
800 operatives out of employment. The
roof and all the floors fell into the
cellar within thirty minutes after the
alarm had been given. The principal
danger was to operativea employed
upon the second and third floors,
most of these escaped by jumping
rom the windows.
, 1887-04-21
The Dark Continent.

ZANZIBAR April l5.-A Samali ira
der from the Uganda country has mr.
rived here bearing advices from
Emin Bey. He was established when
the trader left at Wadelli, north oil AL
bert Nyanza. lie had two small
steamers plying on the White Nile and
on the lake in November, which was
four months later than advices broght
by DIR. Junker. Emin Bey visited I'm
yoyer, who was six days journey from
Uganda. Emin Bey was accompanied
on his journey by DIR. Vita Hassan,
ten Egyptian officers, three Greeks
and four negroes. Subsequently
he asked Mwanga, king of Uganda,
to receive him. The king said he
would willingly receive him il he came
without followers. Emin Bey there
upon went to King Mwanga, accom-
panied by DIR. Vita, and three Greeks.
He and his companions remained
with the king seventeen days. Emin
asked the king for permission to pass
through his territory towards Zanzi-
bar. The king, upon hearing this
request, ordered the visitors to return
the way they came, and declared he
would have nothing more to do with
Europeans. King Mwanga is
youth Of Is years of age. He has
thousand wives. Sometimes he wears
Turkish and other times an Arab
costume and often reverts to native
simplicity in the matter of dress.
Emir Bey when the king ordered him
to return the way he came went back
70 Wadelli and was glad to escape
from M. Wanga's country. Somali
states that messengers dispatched
from Zanzibar to carry information to
Emir Bey, say Mr.. Stanley had gone
with an expedition by the way of
Congo river to effect his rescue, and
were delayed in Unyanyembo by the
king who was indisposed to allow them
to proceed.
, 1887-04-21
FRANCE.
INTERESTED IN FISHERIES.

PARTS, April 15.-Members of the
chamber of deputies, representing
fishing constituents had an interview
to-day with M. Flourens, minister Of
foreign affairs, and protested against
the New Foundland fisheries bill,
which they declared was inimical to
the interests Of French fishermen. M.
Flourens promised to give the matter
his serious attention.
, 1887-04-21
Haa State OF An.,r...

RAGooS, April l6.--Half the town
OF Pegn, fifty-eight miles northwest OF
Ragoon, has been destroyed by fire,
presumably incendiary. An extensive
plot among the inhabitants of upper
Burmah and Daoits to burn towns,
massacre Europeans and proclaim u
new king has been frustrated by the
police and loyvl Burmese, who after
three days fighting captured the
leaders.
, 1887-04-21
Elninc Ahnnt NYcII-

Fort GIBSON, April 14.-Blaine is
rapidly improving. He awakened this
morning much refreshed and feeling
quite strong. After having eaten a
breakfast of meat and vegetables, he
sat up and was helped to put on his
clothes. This was permitted and he
lounged about the room for sometime.
He will be able to leave the house in n
few days if improvement continues.
, 1887-04-21
Constitutional Amendments.

SAN Francisco, April 15.--Latest
returns on constitutional amend
ment votes last Tuesday show that
amendment number 3, which permit
ted cities of over 10000 inhabitants TO
make their own charter has been
adopted, and confirm the defeat Of
amendments l and g
, 1887-04-21
He Deserves II.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14.-Alexan.
der Goldenson, convicted of the mur-
der of Mamie Kelly, was refused new
trial to-day and sentenced to be hanged
June 10th.
, 1887-04-21
Fire in Progress.

SALEM, Mass, April 15.-A large
fire is in progress at the New England
brick works, at Davenport. but partic-
ulars cannot be given. Owing to the
distance from telegraph Office there
is no way OF obtaining any idea OF the
extent of the fire or the damage to-
night.
, 1887-04-21
A Big Blaze.

BIDDEFoRD, Me-, April ia large
fire is in progress at Kennebeck Port.
Half the business section OF the town
has been consumed. Biddeford fire
engines have been telcgraphed for.
, 1887-04-21
Dishonest Clerk.

TOLEDO, April 14.--This afternoon
Edward w. Cody, night distributing
clerk in the postoffice, was arrested by
deputy United States Marshal Breed
for robbing the mails. Cody is an un-
married man, aged about u, and has
been in tho postoffice for about five
years. The only letters he abstracted
were those addressed to the Blade
newspaper He was caught by means
of decoy letters. The Blade first
noticed the loss last November and es-
mates the stealngs since then ut be-
tween $1,000 and "a, 900.
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Railroad Rates.

CHICAGO, April 16.-The joint con-
ference OF the General Passenger
agents of the eastern trunk lines and
Central Traffic association roads ended
to-day. The passenger boycott was
not discussed and no meeting had with
western officials. Special rates of one
and one-third fare for round trip were
granted to the National Education
association to be held in Chicago in
July, National Sunday School
Teachers association to be held in San
Francisco in June, and Grand Army
of Republic at st. Louis in September.
Military companies going to the Ma
tional drill at Washington travelling
in parties of twenty-five in uniform
will be carried for three-fourths fare
per mile each way. Rates for minis
ters were placed at two cents per mile.
, 1887-04-21
sugar Falling.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.--Another
reduction of q quarter of n cent was
made on white sugar.
, 1887-04-21
.Iu., I.,lo comm,n people.

WAsHINaToN, April 13.-President
Cleveland and wife are made parties
to suit brought for decree against
the relatives Of the late Joseph Neal,
Clevelands uncle, to pay his debts,
his property not being sufficient Tor
that purpose.
, 1887-04-21

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, 1887-04-21
Suing for Salaries.

New YORK, April 16.-Argument
was heard by Chief Justice McAdams
i'll the city court to-day upon demurr-
er interposed by counsel on behalf of
chorus girls who are suing the
American opera company for sal
aries, to the answer set up
by Chas. Crocker, the California
millionaire, as ~ stockholder
OF the company, who claims he had
paid up all that the company can hold
him responsible for. Counsel for
the chorus girls insisted that the an
swer was frivolous. Judge McAdam
gave counsel for Crocker until Mon
day to put in briefs and reserved de-
cision, although intimating that the
demurrer was well taken.
, 1887-04-21

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About Pearl EarbOr.

The San Francisco Bulletin" has an
article on the acquisition of Pearl Har-
Dor bv the United States, in which it is
assumed that the affair will be settled as
the United States Senate would have it.
The Bulletin" says: 1t can be made
an excellent cOaling and naval station
by deepening the entrance. The posses
sion of the harbor is purely precautiOn
ary. We take it to keep out some pos
sible bad neighbor. Germany is picking
I'D uncOnsidered trifes in the Pacific;
France is locating new claims in Ocean
lea England is always reaching out for
new possessions, and is already in the
way to have a pecuniary claim on Ha-
wall 1t has come to be understood that
the United States cannot afford to let
any European Power obtain footing on
the Sandwich Islands. They stand on
the path of our Oriental and Australia
sian commerce. convenient halfway
house in peace and a menace in war,
unless subject to our control. In hostile
hands they would not only paralyze our
trade in the Pacific, bat threaten San
Francisco and all our coast ports and
commerce.
Possession OF this depot will not adj
vantage US unless we are prepared to
maintain it. Congress has not yet shown
a disposition to defend our home har-
bors and coasts, much less to establish
and fortify distant naval stations. If our
Legislators mean to be logical, let them
pass an adequate Fertilization and Naval
bill, including a provision for Pearl
River Harbor. Steam and electricity
are so covering the globe with a
network OF conflicting political and
commercial interests that it is be-
coming question whether we will be al
lowed to maintain always our traditional
policy OF Winding our own business. To
make our way we, perhaps, must med
die. The more points of contact with
other nations, the more friction. We
are liable to strike fire at any time. I'm
der the circumstances it is not wise to
let rivals sit down in front OF our gates
and threaten our communications. But
we must improve any advantages that
we NAV now secure.
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POSTAL DISPATCH.

S he San Francisco Post Office the
aEerlGe time OF delivery after arrival of
r nail, however heavy, is thirty min
gt-- and the office accommodation is
who'll inadequate. Were the facilities
lr handling mails at San Francisco as
great as the Honolulu Post Office now
enjoys, the average time of delivery
w- j certainly be reduced by ten min
o. As San Francisco is a great mail
I'll ibuting center like New York, of
course the despatch OF mails is also at
tended to. 1t would be difficult to aver
age the time of delivery of Coast mail
at our Post Office. A good deal depends
upon the hour at which it arrives For
example, the mail by the Australia ar
rived about noon OF Wednesday last, and
the newspaper mail was not wholly as
sorted for distribution until the follow
ing morning. This would appear to be
doing the work somewhat leisurely, but
as there was no apparent necessity for
haste, it is presumed that advantage was
taken ofIthat consideration. 1t might be
well, however, if the Postmaster General
impaired little of his own surplus en-
ergy to the department. The world is
on the run, and Honolulu cannot afford
to saunter along in the rear.
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heretofore, and it viii continue a. long
as silver is discreiitet Is money.
There isuot nearly enough gold TO dothe
worlds business on q gold basis, even
with the device oi bank cheques and
clearing houses to relieve the pressure.
This fact has long been painfully evident
10 manufacturers and producers gener-
ally. Those who control credits have
taken full advantage OF the position, and
will so continue while the monetary
laws OF commercial nations give them
their present advantage.
The situation was poiutedly stated by
the London Economist" towards the
close of 1886, and it has not changed for
the better since then. 1t said: The
Bank of England's stock OF bullion has
already been reduced TO 50 low point
that it is not now sufficient 10 guard it
/ against further depletion. An effort
must be made to increase it, and with
/ Australia withholding her supplies, that
effort NAV be prolonged one. In 1884
! the United States quickly made good the
! deficiency caused by the stoppage OF the
. Australian shipments. But it Is doubt
ful if they will be either able or willing
to spare much geld now; and il we turn
to the continent we find Germany and
Italy jealousy guarding their stocks OF
the metal and the Bank OF France only
consenting to part with its boards under
/ pressure and at high price. it is
almost certain, therefore, that the Bank
OF England will experience unusual diff
Guilty in drawing gold hither, and those
who are reckoning upon lis soon being
in a position to lower its rates will, we
fear, be disappointed.
At that date, December %, 1886, the
Bank rate stood at 5 per cent. Since
then America has imported severa
million dollars from England, while
little or 10 gold remittances were made
to London from abroad. As already
stated, the Bank reserve was steadily
lowered until it stood at a trifle over 81
per cent of liabilities, with continuOui
uniform discount rate OF D per cent. Jus
how long this unfavOrable state OF the
London market is going to last it is i'm
possible to say; but one cannot hell
thinking that the delays in remittance
from the realization upon the Hawaiian
Loan, which was successfully negotiated
on December Is, 1856, and which as We
has been wholly unproductive of none
tary results to the Hawaiian Treasury, /.
in some remote way connected with it
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STATE OF TRADE.

The outward movement of domestic
produce has been active since the sea
son opened, and receipts at Honolulu
from the islands to date about equal those
OF former years, although the prevalence
of stormy weather has somewhat retarded
shipments from neighboring islands.
The yield of sugar everywhere is salts
factory, and we see no reason for modi-
flying the opinion expressed by us last
steamer regarding the seasons output.
1t will fully equal that of last year. The
growing crop is looking well. In some
districts there has been too much rain
perhaps, but the general average of re-
ports is decidedly favorable. Rice will
be short crop.
The movement OF merchandise i'll the
domestic trade does not respond to the
activity in exports. This is partly to be
accounted for by the uncertainty regard
ing the Reciprocity Treaty, and partly by
the long spell of bad weather Money
will soon begin to circulate more freely
however, and this will stimulate trade.
Collections are reported slow, but this is
an inevitable result of the long credit
system practiced Unfortunately by
importers and retailers.
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SCARCITY OF GOLD IN ENGLAND.

There is great scarcity OF gold in Eng
land, and for the matter of that through
out the world Australia was the main
gold supply depot for England OF late
years. In exchange for Australian gold
the mother country shipped its shoddy
goods, negotiated loans, established
credits, managed the carrying trade, and
in short controlled the finance and com
merce of Australasia. But Australia has
OF late ceased to remit gold direct to
London, and has actually become some
what OF a drain upon the gold reserve
of England to carry on the infinite va
riety of banking and credit establish
ments originated in London for the de-
velopment of colonial resources and the
accumulation of interest for the in
vestors.
The United States, which at one time
could nearly always be counted upon to
strengthen the gold reserve of England,
can no longer be depended upon, and in
fact New York resumed gold importation
from London in the last two months
NO European country II III poSIIIOh 10
part with gold, it being the usurers'
token, so the Bank of England in self
defense advanced the rate OF discount to
five per cent, where it stood at the latest
date, February I'd. while the bank re-
serve in proportion to liabilities had gone
steadily down from about Christmas.
Should the warlike news continue 1t is
probable that the Bank Charter Act, es-
tablishing the gold standard in England,
will precipitate another crisis, to be re-
lieved only by an illegal issue OF Bank of
England notes followed by a Bill OF In
demnity. This has been the course
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The narshars visit 40 Kauai.

During last week the Hon. J. l.. Kau-
lukou, Marshal of the Kingdom, paid an
official visit to the island of Kauai. 1t
would have extended over this week,
but for the death of the Princess Like
like. On Thursday evening, February
Sd, the Sheriff and all the Deputy Sher-
ifs on the island met the Marshal at
Lihue. His Excellency Hon. Antoine
Rosa, Attorney General, was also pres
ent. The Marshal addressed those as
sembled, and gave them the instruc-
tons he wished carried out in the future.
He called particular attention to the fact
that it was his intention to have nothing
but an efficient police force on every
island of the group. AS long as he was
Marshal that would be his aim. He
looked to the Sheriff and his deputies to
assist him in that work all they could.
His Excellency the Attorney General
also made few sound remarks, which
were attentively listened to.
Sheriff s. w. Wilcox said he had oc-
cupied his position fifteen years, and
during that long time he had never re-
ceived a visit from the Marshal until
that week. He was glad to see Marshal
Kaulukou. 1t certainly was his duty to
pay an occasional visit, and he hoped
they would see him often. 1t was some
thing new to see a Marshal visiting the
island of Kauai.
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The yrovemert tor Free Sugar.

The following suggestive statement APP
peared in a recent issue of the New \ Ork
shipping and Commercial List" ga
few years ago the City of Baltimore was
the center of a lucrative and prosperous
sugar trade, but competition has taken
it all away, and last year not a single
cargo OF foreign sugar was entered at that
port There were also several refneries
located there that at one time were in
successful operation, but they gradually
succumbed to the same influence and
were obliged to close up Last week an
extensively signed memorial was pre-
scented to Congress from the leading
merchants OF that city, praying for re-
peal of the duty on sugar which they
hold would materially benefit the coun-
try, the free entry of sugar to be ex-
tended, however, only to such countries
as collect no export duty upon their
! product The friends of free sugar have
| been steadily increasing in number
since the advisability of adopting this
method of reducing the revenue has
been under discussion, but they do seem
| to be sufficiently numerous to lead the
present Congress to give practical effect
to so wise and conservative measure. 1t
is intimated that free sugar might result
in restoring to Baltimore her lost sugar
| trade
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Sugar Game In California.

We extract the following from San
Francisco paper: Success in cane plant
ing for sugar in California has not been
reached In Tehama county cane of an
excellent quality, apparently, has been
grown, but it succeeded in rewarding it's
cultivators only with excellent syrup.
The climate is too dry and the soil I'M
snited for sugar cane to any extent
Here and there along the river bottom
lands something may be attained in that
direction, but so far experience has not
demonstrated the practicability of any
extensive cultivation of cane for sugar
with profit. Experiments on small
scale still continue in this State in hopes
of reaching more favorable results, and
there are those who are more sanguine
than judicious on the subject"
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H. H. MS KaimIIoa.

The work of fitting H. H. Ms Kaini-
loa is progressing very favorably under
the supervision OF Captain G. E. Gresley
Jackson, R. N. The fittings between
decks are in forward state, and the
shot, shell, provision and tank rooms
are completed. In about weeks time
the ward room and state room will be in
course of erection, and considerable pro-
gress has been made with alterations to
the poop for carrying the Calling guns.
The mess deck is nearly completed, as
is also the state room on deck, and work
is being pushed forward on the rigging.
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AMERICAN NATIONAL DEBT.

The interest bearing debt of the United
States on the 31st January last was
81, 137 ,297 ,532, including interest. Dur
ing January, 1897, the debt had been
decreased by $9,515,6 $3.50. The cash in
the National Treasury for the reduction
OF the debt was $40, 934,923. The Sec
rotary had issued another call for $1O,-
100000 United States per cent bonds.
The decrease in December, 1886, was
So. 35S. 2O2.
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superstitions Pertaining to Clothing.

Superstitfons Pertaining to Clothing.
An old superstition pertaining to cloth
ing is that before putting on new clothes
a sum of money must be placed In the
right-hand pocket which will insure its
always being full If by mistakes now
ever, it is put in the left hand pocket, the
wearer will never have penny as long as
the clothes last.
If an article of dress is put on inside out
it is good luck.
1t is said of the cast-off clothes or the
dead that they never last very long, but
that as the body decays so do the gar
ments In Denmark a corpse IS never al
lowed 10 be buried in the clothes or Nv
ing person, lest as the clothes rot IN the
grave that person to whom they belonged
should waste away and perish. 50 III the
Netherlands even the rings OF the dead
are never given away.
The apron is not without its supersti-
tons Women turn them before the new
moon to insure GOOD luck for the ensuing
month. In Yorkshire, a town In Eng
land, when a married woman's apron
falls off it is sign that something IS
coming to vex her; when, however, the
apron of an unmarried girl drops down
she is frequently the subject Of laughter,
as it is sure sign that she is thinking OF
her sweetheart. If a young woman's pet
ticoats are longer than her dress IL Is
proof that her mother does not love her
as much as her father, a notion which eX-
tends as far as Scotland. If the stocking
is put on wrong side out, it is lucky, but
unlucky to turn it. TO clothe the left
foot before the right one is a sign of mis-
fortune.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser
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The Latitude of Oahu.

Mr. Preston, of the U. S. Coast Sur
vey, having finished his series of astro-
nomical observations at Pearl Harbor,
has established station at Kahuku, the
most northerly point of the island, and
on line exactly north of Pearl River
The weather has been extremely unfav-
orable for astronomical observations so
far, but should it clear up for few days
the work upon which Mr.. Preston is en-
gagged on this island would soon be ac-
complished.